I'm accumulating cuties from across the nation,
Pull 'em in like neighbors in a Delaunay triangulation,
I got hoes from different area codes and IP ranges,
Swap 'em round like VMMs making page exchanges,
Yeah I round 'em up like ceil() and I add 'em to my stable
And I offer them a spliff from off my hash table.

On the planes I read I Am a Strange Loop, which is making me very happy. From what I remember of GEB, it's a little more colloquial and a lot more personal, and I keep getting little thrills of shared experience. I know how it feels to make myself run faster by force of will, and I know how it feels to be five years old and genuinely sad that it's about to turn 1988 because 9-8-7 is a more interesting pattern, and I keep exclaiming to myself, I've done that, I've felt that, I read to my sister that way when we were fourteen. I'm up to chapter 9, and just about to start the part about number theory, it looks like -- but I really didn't want to read about number theory on the plane from Houston. (I want to read about number theory on the train from Prague. But "on the bed in Portland" will be acceptable.)

Oh! That was the marathon I was originally planning to do this spring! Then I heard some negative comments about the way in which it was organized; after the fiasco that was the 2007 Chicago marathon, I'm shying away from large marathons with organizational issues. I'm doing the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon on May 4th. I'd consider dropping that to do Atlanta w/you, but I've been a lump on the couch for the past couple of months and I don't think I'll be back in marathon-running shape by March 30th.

Last year, I only did the half for this one. The organization wasn't great (this was the first year they did it) -- but the race happened, and we seem to have at least run the right distance!

My particular issues about it were that packet pickup was a bit of a mess, and the start took a really long time to get started because the area was so crowded. However! The course is different this year (with a new start/finish location!), and they'll hopefully tighten things up otherwise...